Oh Susanna + Boo Hewerdine + Jess Morgan

While the doors to our beloved venue remain closed and the whole world as we know it seems to have turned upside down, we wanted to continue to do what we love doing! So…. we are very proud to present “Virtually Green Note… in the round”… a series of specially-curated, unique online musical events that will run every Wednesday and Friday evening at 8pm (UK time), streamed live to our website, our YouTube and Facebook page.

If you watch this show (and are able to) we would like to like to ask you to make a donation via our PayPal link and support the musicians during this difficult time. All the money raised for each show, will be divided four ways, between the venue and the three artists playing on this date. Please know that we, and all the musicians involved, are incredibly grateful for the support of music-loving audiences… and it enables us to keep doing what what we do!
Suggested donation £10, but any donation will be much appreciated. Thank you! 

 

OH SUSANNA: This American-born, Canadian-raised songwriter possesses a bewitching voice that opens your ribcage and wraps around your heart. Her superbly crafted songs often tell stories of troubled souls who rebel against their circumstances to attain a quiet dignity. These are tales of longing and love, of joys and pains, of our simple feelings and strong passions and of our search for who we are. These are tales that look into our beautifully flawed human hearts.

Performing since 1996, Oh Susanna has released eight critically acclaimed albums.  She is the recipient of a Genie Award for Best Original Song and a Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year.  She has also been nominated for two Juno Awards each for Best Roots and Traditional Album of the Year, as well as two Canadian Folk Music Awards for Best Solo Performer and for Best Contemporary Singer of the Year.  In 2017, she released A Girl in Teen City, an album of songs set in 1980s Vancouver starring a teenage punk girl named Suzie.  The album has been met with high critical acclaim and has earned three Canadian Folk Music Award nominations: English Songwriter of the Year, Contemporary Singer of the Year, and Producer of the Year.  In 2019 Oh Susanna re-issued The 20th Anniversary Edition of her folk-noir full-length debut Johnstown including five acoustic versions of the songs previously only released on her 1998 cassette A Shot of Oh Susanna.  Inspired by the Johnstown re-issue, UK label MVKA is re-issuing her 2001 release Sleepy Little Sailor on double vinyl and all streaming platforms with five bonus acoustic tracks: 3 demo versions recorded in 2001 and 2 acoustic versions recorded this year.  This Sleepy Little Sailor Deluxe Edition will be available 2020

Oh Susanna is currently working on a script based on her A Girl in Teen City album as well as creating a new album scheduled for early 2021. Oh Susanna lives Vancouver, Canada.

 

BOO HEWERDINE: Boo Hewerdine is one of the greatest songwriter performers in the business and a unique talent. As a recording artist, Boo’s first tentative steps came with the band, The Great Divide before the formation of his much-loved eighties group The Bible and a career that subsequently bloomed such that he is now in constant demand as a musician, songwriter, producer, teacher and live concert performer.
Brit Award winning, former Fairground Attraction singer (and Scottish national treasure) Eddi Reader (MBE) is the perhaps the artist Boo Hewerdine is most regularly associated with, as a songwriter, musician and producer. Together they enjoyed international success with the (Hewerdine written) hit single ‘Patience of Angels’ in 1995 and Boo also produced Reader’s ‘Sings the Songs of Robert Burns’ in 2003, an album now viewed as a folk classic.

JESS MORGAN: Jess Morgan is a singer-songwriter from Norwich who writes gutsy modern folk songs, touring very small, very dark music clubs all over the world… and just once, the O2 Arena. Jess is described as – “The sort of thing you put on your headphones when walking alone and wanting to feel like you’re in your own gritty British love story.” (TRASH magazine).